There’s something invigorating about a film treating a boldly ridiculous premise with utterly intense sincerity. It’s really the only way to approach a film like Whalefall, which finds its young adult protagonist, Jay (Austin Abrams), trapped in the belly of a whale, with less than an hour to find his way to freedom before everything goes dark. A deep-sea dive intended to bring catharsis to Jay’s family after the sudden loss of his father, Mitt (Josh Brolin), turns into chaos when a simple recovery mission is interrupted by a battle of oceanic behemoths. In his attempt to escape the vicious battle between a Giant Squid and a Sperm Whale, Jay gets caught up and winds up trapped in the whale’s gullet alongside what is left...
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